A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

I waste every breathe of my life trying to be the best nobody has ever been.

We will persevere, come life or death.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

Only one thing can stop Luis Suarez from being voted as the Players' Player of the Year... his fellow players.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.